Principal Cost and Business Analytics, Group Leader - Security Clearance Required

MITRE
McLean, Virginia
Full-time

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Department Summary :

The Cost and Business Analytics Department within MITRE’s Cost, Acquisition, and Management Sciences (CAMS) Innovation Center solves our Sponsors’ problems by leveraging our key capabilities in Cost Estimation & Analysis, Investment Economics & Decision Analysis, and Strategic Business & Financial Analytics.

Our department serves as a vanguard for MITRE to meet the future needs of our customers requiring technical excellence while encouraging creativity and fostering interests at the intersection of emerging technologies, cost, business, and economic impacts across its diverse membership.

Expect a multi-disciplinary team environment with self-motivated, highly trained professionals.

Job Description :

The Cost and Business Analytics Department, L213, is seeking a first line supervisor focused on staff development, technical expertise, staff management, and delivery of high-quality technical products.

The successful candidate will be an active member of the department management team. Candidates should have a track record of leading people, thinking and acting innovatively, and collaborating across boundaries.

The new Group Lead will provide leadership and first line management, day-to-day career development and performance management for personnel;

oversee and facilitate routine administrative aspects of employment; support onboarding for new employees; and communicate regularly with group members to ensure well-being, engagement, and job satisfaction.

The ideal candidate will work closely with the L213 Department Head and other leadership and team members to promulgate a culture of quality, excellence, teamwork, staff development, continued learning, innovation, evaluation, and benchmarking to ensure continuous improvement within the department and on all aspects of the department's work program.

The GL position is critical to staff and department outcomes. We are looking for people who get excited by a challenge and are motivated to make a difference in staff development, business development, and technical direction setting.

Key Functions :

  • Advisor to staff, supporting staff development and goal alignment hiring, onboarding, mentoring, communicating, and facilitating for a group of 6-9 direct reports
  • Providing informed, concrete, productive feedback on staff performance
  • Developing and executing department technical and business goals
  • Developing new business in our core capability areas (Cost Estimating & Analysis, Investment Economics & Decision Analysis, and Strategic Business & Financial Analytics)
  • Supporting department leaders in resource planning
  • Advising department leaders on staff performance and professional / career development needs

Basic Qualifications :

Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 7 years and a Master’s degree;

or a PhD with 4 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

  • Desire for personnel leadership / management roles
  • Strong desire to work with people
  • Strong verbal and written communications skills
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Experience with team management in a dynamic and challenging technical environment
  • Experience coaching and mentoring employees in remote locations
  • Expertise in one or more capabilities, e.g., Cost Estimating & Analysis, Investment Economics & Decision Analysis, Strategic Business & Financial Analytics
  • Secret clearance required
  • This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

Preferred Qualifications :

  • Prior supervisory experience
  • Broad knowledge of Federal Government Acquisition and Program Management

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s) :

Secret

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s) :

Secret

Work Location Type : Hybrid

Hybrid

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